Did you know that the average person spends only 10-27 seconds looking at a work of art?
Once a year, on Slow Art Day, art museum visitors throughout the world are encouraged to spend time in a slow and meaningful conversation with a work of art.
Grant Wood (America, 1891-1942)
Appraisal, 1931
Oil on composition board
37 x 43 inches
Dubuque Museum of Art, on long-term loan from the Carnegie-Stout Public Library, acquired through the Lull Art Fund, LTL.99.08. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
The work we have chosen to slow down with is Appraisal by Iowa Regionalist Grant Wood, who is beloved by DuMA visitors.
Today we are posing a series of open-ended questions about the work:
- Looking at the work, where do think Wood's sympathies lie?
- What pairing would you choose for an updated version of this painting?
- What title would you give the painting?